The Liberal Feminist is.........

    Last class we were split into groups where each group was to define a term that was discussed in our readings. As we were discussing gender concepts of labor, Cecilia talked about the dichotomy of the home. Traditionally with stay at home moms, the woman provides the free labor for their husbands who can then spend the time at a job making money. This money then comes back to the wife who can spend the money at her leisure. This interdependent process is a very interesting insight into what a marriage is. A business arrangement where labor is exchanged for money and success in money equals harmony. So where is the love? Or does love grow from security and comforts. And if so should we pick someone who is wealthy since money and security are what promises a happy marriage? How many American marriages are happy when the spouses live a low socio-economic lifestyle?
Liberal feminism also gets a lot of shit for being anti- male. Most movements were centered around women trying to overcome obstacles reserved exclusively for men. The "old boys club" as Celia termed it in class on day. Yet,  I think it has all  been misconstrued. Look, we come from a patriarchal society. We are held by standards, the majority of which were discovered by men. When women sought equality or liberation in her society, she asked that the standard rules that prevented her from doing so, would change, expand to include the opposite sex. But this means highlighting a fallacy within the very fabric of common thought. The ideas of Descartes, Niche, Freud, Marx, Smith, Locke, all male historic figures which have shaped the American dream, created democracy and laid done the premise for the global market, would fall under doubt.
 Humans have a remarkable evolutionary skill to change and adapt to different environments. Yet, we have  a remarkable ability to be so stubborn in our ideals. Any great social change has always resulted in some type of conflict (war). And yet the change is more apt to do us more good than harm. Radical feminism calls for the over-turning of the social structures which causes the oppression of women everywhere. This means confronting those good old boys and forcing them to meet women at the negotiating table